... a writer and social critic. Later he remarked of this part of his life: "How much I suffered, it is ... utterly beyond my power to tell ... No words can express the secret agony of my soul." He could never forget this period of lonely hopelessness and almost never mentioned ... children, in 1854, Catherin and Charles Dickens separated, and Charles continued to write novels and stories. On June 9, 1870, he died of a stroke half way through writing The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Dickens wrote a total of 20 novels, and many other nonfiction books, his first being Sketches ... work as a court ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... doubts...this dazzle has too often ended in darkness." Discoveries in geology, biology, and textual scholarship shattered belief in the literal truth of the Bible. The Industrial Revolution shifted power from the landed aristocracy toward an insecure, expanding middle class of businessmen and professionals, impoverishing millions of once-rural laborers along the way. Strident, riotous campaigns to extend voting ... fabric of life in a cathedral community, as much as, for all its deconstruction of the possibility of a single reliable narrator, Eliot's masterpiece, Middlemarch, indicates...

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